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UNIT 9: deserts

Reading
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim:
- Guessing the meaning in the context. Deciding true or false statements
- Passage comprehesions and Understanding the humour of the story.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Lives of plants animals in deserts.
- Language: Common knowledge of the life of plants and animals in the deserts
- New words: Words related to the lives of plants and animals in deserts.
3. Skills:
- Guessing meaning in context, deciding on true or false and passage comprehension.
II. Method:
- Integrated, mainly communicative.
III. Teaching aids:
-Picture, board, chalks, textbook, handouts
IV. Procedure:

Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

Warm-up: (5 minutes)
Aims: to introduce the topic of the lesson and to raise students` interest.
- Introduce the new lesson to the students.
Before you read : (7 minutes)
- Ask students to look at the picture ask and answer the questions.



While you read : (23 minutes)
- Ask students to look through the passage and read in silence
- Help students read the passage
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of new words which appear in the passage
Task 1 : (3 minutes)
- Ask students to read through the text once to find out some new words, guess the main idea.
- Explain new words (give the Vietnamese equivalents), guide the sts to get the main contents of the reading text.
- Ask students to work individually in 3 minutes to do this task.
- Guide students to read through the passage , then focus on only the sentences surrounding the suggested words to do the task effectively.
- Give students some more words that may be new/ unfamiliar to them.
- Guide the students to read the word in chorus and individually.

Task 2: (4 minutes)
- Ask students to read the passage again then work in pairs to choose the statements are true or false.
- Walk round the class to give help if necessary.
- Give suggested words, phrases or useful suggestions.
- Correct the students’ work.
Task 3: (6 minutes)
- Ask students to read the questions carefully.
- Ask students to read through the passage again.
- Ask the class to do .
- Call some students to give the answers.
- Ask others students to correct.
- Give the true answers










After you read : (8 minutes)
- Ask student to read the story.
Ask them for the humour of the story.
Explain.
Home work: (2 minutes)
- Review the reading and prepare the speaking at home.

- Listen to teacher.



- Look at the picture, listen to the teacher then ask and answer the questions in the book.
- Work in pairs.


- Listen to the teacher then read the passages
- Ask some new words if necessary


- Work individually to read the text then choose the the words and phrases in the passage:
- Share the key with other students:
Keys:
1. Kéo dài, căng ra
2. Có cát,
3. Trắc lượng trên không
4. Hội địa lý hoàng gia Austra
5. Thổ dân Australia
6. Cồn cát, đụn cát
7. độ dốc, dốc thoai thoải
8. Dốc đứng, dốc ngược
9. Gò, đống
10. Đỉnh (gò/đống)
11. Cỏ lá nhỏ mọc trên xa mạc


- Listen to the teacher then do the task.
- Works in pais:
Keys:
1. F, 2. F, 3. T,
4. F, 5. F, 6. T.


- Work individually to read the text then answer the questions:
- Share the key with other students:
Keys:
1. They are Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon….
2. It lies between Lake Eyre in the south, the….
3. In 1845.
4. He was the President of the South….
5. They took camels across the desert.
6. In thwe western part, they are short, mostly ….
7. Two. They are hummock grasses and spinifex

- Read the story then answer.
- Work in groups

- Listen to the teacher
- Write down the homework to do at home.










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